Ticket-delivering and change-receiving apparatus.



B. I. E. IVI. OHLSON d2 N. G. 0. LUNDBERG.

TICKET DELIVEHING AND CHANGE RECEIVING APPARATUS. APPLICATION FILED neas. 191s.

1,293,5@1 Patented Fb. 4, 1919.

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APPLICATION FILED DEC. 5.1916.

Eatented Feb. 4, 1919.

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BROR IVAIR. EDVARD MAURITZ OHLSON, 01Ey LUNDBERG, OF M aranr raten.

ALMo, SWEDEN.

HELSINGBORG, AND NILS GUSTAF OSCAR Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 4, 1919.

Application led December 5, 1916. Serial No. 135,281.

. To all 'whom t may concern.'

Be it known that we, BRoR IVAR EDVARD MAURITZ OHLsoN, a citizen of the Kingdom of Sweden, and residing at Helsingborg, Sweden, and N iLs GUsTAr OSCAR LUNDBERG, a citizen of the Kingdom of Sweden, and residing at .Malmo, Sweden, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ticket-Delivering and Change-Receiving Apparatus, of which the following is an exact specification.

Our invention consists in apparatuses for distributing tickets at railroad stations and the like and for receiving of payment for the same without the need of a direct opening between the ticket oiiice and the locality accessible to the public. Usually the ticket windows especially at railroad stations are placed in a wall between the ticket office and a locality accessible to the public the most of these localities being either not sufficiently heated halls and entrances. or also open to the air and by the opening of an ordinary window a violent draft arises caused by differences in temperature, etc., and this draft has partly a disturbing effect upon the distribution, for instance when paying with bank notes, and partly it is injurious to the attendants health. This invention has for its object to prevent this disturbing and injurious draft. Apparatuses for the same purpose are already known, but these are not quite fitted for the purpose on account o their complicated construction. The advantages of this invention consist in a simplied construction and an easier yand m-ore rapid distribution caused thereby. At the same time the operation of the apparatus is quite noiseless.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings wherein similar reference characters indicate similar parts throughout the views,'and in which- Figure 1 shows the apparatus seen from above. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section along the line A-B and Fig. 3 a cross section along the line C-D, both lines in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 shows a modified form of the moving mechanism and Fig. 5 is another modification thereof. In Fig. 4 the apparatus is seen from above and in Fig. 5 from below. he apparatus consists mainly of two upa. wardly opening drawers 1 and 2 or the like, of which the former is slidable in the guides 3 and 4 and the latter in the guides 5 and 6. he drawers are preferably of the same width and their guides are horizontal and parallel to each other. The guides 4 and 5 are suitably connected at their ends two disks or rope pulleys 7 and 8 are mounted as shown in Figs. 1 and 3. A screw 9 is iiXed to the drawer 1 and another screw 10 to the drawer 2. An endless rope 12 engages the pulleys 7 and 8 and is attached to the drawers 1 and 2 by the screws 9 and 10 respectively. The

wider ribbons or belts if the adapted therefor.

bove the guides 3, 4, 5, and 6 a crossbar 13 is fixed of such a width that the drawers are quite covered thereby and above this bar a window and a speaking diaphragm are placed in a known way. f One of the drawers, for instance'2, is on that end of it, which faces the ticket office, provided with a lengthening piece 14 and a grip 15, by which the apparatus is to be handled, and the piece 14 is suitably of the same width as the cros'sbar 13 so that the drawers can be slidl quite outside of the bar. Although not necessary for the function of the apparatus the other drawer also may be rovided with an extension piece. e Agt one of the ends and preferably the one facing the ticket office the guides are provided with a stopping device, for instance a rib 16 against which the drawers stop when slid quite clear of the cross-bar: 13. The rib 16 is covered with a noise preventing stuif, for instance rubber or felt, upon the side facing the drawers. r1`he crossbar l13 is in a corresponding manner covered with felt on' the underside, for preventing draft, and for the same purpose a rib 1r covered with felt is placed under the drawers (Figs. 2 and 3). l

to each other and v1 by The apparatus is placed in the wall between the ticket ofiice and the locality accessible to the public. if one of the drawers (for. instance 1 as shown inthe drawing Figs. 1 andQ) is slid outside of the wall', the other drawer (2) is in the ticket office and then the apparatus is ready for use. The ticket buyer calls for the ticket through the `speaking diaphragm and the clerk observes through the window Vthe amount placed in the drawer 1. f' money is to be given in exchange the clerk places the amount of it together with the ticket asked for in the drawer 2 and pushes this drawer outward by the grip 15. At the same time the drawer 1 slides the reversed way and an exchange between the ticket and the money paid has taken place, whereafter the apparatus without any sliding of the drawers can be used for another exchange and so on. When the ticket office is locked the two drawers are placed opposite each other both under the crossbar 13 and in this position the drawers can be locked, for instance by means of a pin pushed through. the guides andthe drawers or the lengthening pieces, this p'n ofcourse being placed in the ticket office. When locked in' this way a sliding of thel drawers is impossible.

The crossbar 13-` being of such. a width that it quite covers the drawer concavities there is no position in which a direct opening is to be found between the ticket oflice and the locality outside thereof', and draft is totally avoided.

Instead of being placed to slide in the same horizontal plane the drawers can of course be placed one' above the other.

According to the modified forni. shown in Fig. 4. them'eans for sliding the drawers l and 2 consist of a toothed wheel 18 mounted upon aV fixed axle and always geared into two racks 19 and 20 theI first of' which is fixed to the. drawer 1 and the other one to the drawer 2, these racks being parallel to each other and placed on the sides of. the drawers facing each other. For using; this modification the drawers must be sli'dable parallel to each other and placed. in the same plane. lf' the drawers are not placed in the saine' planel but abovev each other a toothed wheel gearing also can be used. if the wheel isplaced upon a horizontal axle and the racks arranged in a corresponding ina-nner.

The modification shown in to contain the simplest fornr of the invention. ln this modification a lever 2l, 222 is mounted upon a xed center 23,. this lever being at its one end fastened to the drawer means of a pin 24e slidable ina, a slot 26 and at the other endA to the drawer 2 by means of a piny Q5 slidable in a slot 27. The pins 24, 25 are fixed tothe under side Fig; 5 seems comprising, a pair of the bottoms of the drawers and by pushing the one drawer in one direction the other drawer slides the opposite way. Also this modification can be used if the drawers are placed above each other. For thispurpose the axle 23 must be horizontal and the pins 24, 25 fixed to the sides of the` drawers. y

`laying now described our' invention we declare' that what we claim is 1. An apparatus fordistributing tickets at railroad stations vandV the like and for receiving of payment for the same, consisting of two sl'idable drawers placed beside of and parallel. to` each other in the same horizontal plane, these drawers being fastened to the` opposite parts-of an endless rope or the like running around twol disks or rope pulleys anda commoncrossbar placed above the drawers, this bar being of such. a width thatv it fully covers drawers when passing` it.

2. Ain. apparatus for distributing tickets at railroad stations and: the like and for receiving of payment for. the same consisting of twodrawers placed slidably in guides beside of and parallel to eachother, astopping device placed at the ends .of the guides, this stopping device being covered with felt or rubber as to prevent noise at the stopping, and a` crossbar placed. above the drawers, said bar being of such a width that it fully covers the concavities of the drawers when passing; the bar;

3. An apparatus for distributing tickets at railroad stations and. the like and? for receiving of payment for the saine consisting of two slidable drawers placed beside ofV and parallel:` tof each other, a crossbar placed above these drawers, the one of which` at the oneI end is provided with al lengthening'A piece of such a width that' the drawers canbe sli quite clear of the crossbar without the lengthening; piece passing' it, said lengthening piece beingV provided with an grip for the pushing" of thedrawers'. Y

It.. An apparatus for distributing tickets at railroad stations and the like and for receiving of payment for the same, consisting of two drawers slidably mounted guides, a crossbar placed above thel drawers, the one of which is provided with a lengthening piece anda gripvfixed thereto, and a stopping device attached to the one end of the guides and covered with felt, rubber or the lil e said drawers.- being connected to each other by means of an endless rope or belt running around two disks or rope pulleys mounted near the end of the guides.

5; Apparatus of the-character described of substantially horizontal guides disposed inparallel relation,-y a pair of drawers mounted. to' reciprocate 'within` the guides and provided with upwardly opening; pockets,1jmeans connecting the concavities ofthe ion the drawers so that they move together and In testimony whereof in opposite directions, and a Cross bar disnaines to this specificati posed above the guides and extending transof tWo subsribing Witnesses. Versely thereof, said cross bar being adapti l ed to completely cover the upper open end DXERIIRHLSON of the pocket of each drawer When the drawer is shifted to e position beneath the Witnesses: same, said cross bar having a raised portion HJ. BRAUZELL, to carry a draft obstructing element. FRED. FLERON.

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